Ethan Dodd – Visual Artist. Cardiff, Wales

September 26, 2013September 26, 2013

‘He weeps for you’, Bill Viola 1976

As I am working through my current project of ‘Time’, I am aiming to work with a piece that transcends the 4-dimensional barriers. I have looked at a number of different pieces, but ‘He weeps for You’ has stood out to me.

The concept is simple, the viewer watches themselves in a drop of water that slowly grows, until it falls to the ground, extinguishing in a splash and a loud noise from the drum. The technical side is of course more complex, n which there is a camera linked up to the screen, that films the event taking place. It really is a phenomenal work, not only does it simply materialise the concept of life and death, but does so in an incredibly short time. The life being extinguished in a loud event, accentuating the destruction and aspect of the sudden ultimatum, it’s just wondrous.